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CELEBRATION 



OF THE 

269th BIRTHDAY OF CONCORD, MASS. 



REPORT OF THE 18th ANNUAL MEETING OF 

CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY 

LIST OF MEMBERS 



NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FOUR 



CELEBRATION 

OF THE 

TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY 
OF CONCORD 

• BY THE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY OF THAT TOWN 
SEPTEMBER THE TWELFTH, 1904 



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REPORT OF THE EIGHTEENTH 
ANNIVERSARY of the CONCORD 
ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, WITH 
ADDRESS BY MR. P. K. WALCOTT 
TOGETHER WITH A LIST OF 
MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY :: 



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BEACON PRESS 



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EXERCISES IN TOWN HALL 



TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINTH 
ANNIVERSARY OF CONCORD 

The Concord Antiquarian Society observed its own 
eighteenth anniversary, and the two hundred and sixty- 
ninth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of 
Concord, by a public meeting in the Town Hall on the 
afternoon of Monday, September 12, 1904, followed by a 
reception at its own house at a later hour. The after- 
noon's bright sun brought out a large gathering of mem- 
bers and their friends, filling the hall. The President of 
the Society, Hon. John S. Keyes, as chairman, said : 

Members of the Concord Antiquarian Society and Friends: 
Ladies and Gentlemen: 

This is Concord's two hundred and sixty-ninth birth- 
day — the oldest town above tide water in the United 
States. Imagination fails to picture this spot in 1635, 
when the first settlers came. The primeval forest covered 
these low hills and plains. Only Indians roamed its paths 
or paddled their canoes on its quiet waters. 

It is our custom for several years past to celebrate 
the birthday of this good old mother town. At the one 
hundred and fiftieth birthday of Lincoln, her first-born 
daughter, the wise orator eloquently called it " Planting a 
Milestone." Not the old, gray, mossy ones of former gen- 
erations, but a new, clear-cut tablet to mark the town's 
progress. The old milestones told only the distance to 
Boston. The new ones should beg:in at the town line and 



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tell the distance each mile to the center, as our neighbor, 
Groton, has wisely done. 

Thus this celebration of ours, coming every year and 
having but little progress to note annually, if any, might 
be more properly called "Planting a Footstone." Let us see 
if it is not. Sixty-nine years ago Concord planted her first, 
after two hundred years of vigorous life. Mine were the 
youngest, perhaps the only living, ears that heard the words 
of Ralph Waldo Emerson, then in the flower of his young 
manhood, as he told the story of the founders in their 
struggles and sacrifices. My memory yet retains his elo- 
quent apostrophe to the score of soldiers of the Revolution 
seated in the front pews of the old meeting house, that 
brought tears to the eyes of their bowed heads, and brought 
the entire audience to their feet in a silent tribute of 
applause that in these days would have been a ringing 
cheer for both the speaker and the veterans. Therefore, 
methinks, how times do change. Two years ago on this 
birthday that address of Emerson's was read before you by 
your Vice-President, whose voice, alas ! we shall never again 
hear in this hall, where it has so often been heard in wise 
counsel and sound reasoning — Samuel Hoar. 

At the planting of the second on the two hundred and 
fiftieth birthday of Concord, when Senator Hoar gave his 
masterly oration, there sat on this platform, made of the 
wood of the old North Bridge, over which his and your 
ancestors fought the first battle of the Revolution, the 
youngest of that large audience, a boy of seven years. 
He listened intently to what his father reported interest- 
ingly of the tablets erected on that day to the events of 
Concord's history. Whatever of inspiration that occasion 
gave to that youth (it did not retain him here in his native 
home) you will now hear, as I present to you Philip Keyes 
Walcott, Esq., of New York. 



ADDRESS OF 
PHILIP KEYES WALCOTT, ESQ. 



THE VALUE OF AN HEROIC PAST 

There are those who look only to the future, like the 
man who substituted respect for posterity for veneration 
of ancestors. This attitude of mind is generally found 
among those who have no past and no ancestors. Some 
have reproached the people of Concord for living in and 
trading on their past, insinuating that we are degenerate 
sons of worthy sires. But if we go about it in the right 
way, we find in the past the only guide to the future ; for 
the future is only the past entered through another door, 
and the succeeding generations are like the stage army, 
marching by continuously, with the same figures constantly 
reappearing in changed garb. 

Our town always has been, and, let us hope, will 
always remain, a small town. It was a small town before 
the Revolution, and in proportion to other towns and 
cities, and to the country at large, it has grown smaller 
since, although its actual population has increased. Apart 
from the great growth in other states, near-by towns in 
Massachusetts, like our neighbor Lowell, have shot up in 
the last century and surpassed Concord in population and 
wealth. Concord was undoubtedly laid out by Simon 
Willard with an eye to its water power, which was used 
in the earliest years of the settlement, and some of which 
is employed to this day. But, perhaps fortunately for us, 
the Concord streams were not sufficient for large factories, 
like those of Lowell and Lawrence, and so our town 
has remained as it began, mainly devoted to farms and 
residences. 



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This failure to keep up with our neighbors in point 
of growth cost Concord the sittings of the County Court, 
which were removed to Lowell, to the great grief of Con- 
cord folk of that day. We may be easily reconciled to 
the change, and even count this loss a gain. 

But in this era of vast material prosperity, when 
population and wealth are reckoned in millions, it may 
well be asked : "What is the function of this small town? 
True, it is a spot of historic and literary interest from its 
past, but what other present place in the economy of the 
nation has it except as a delightful residence for delight- 
ful people, of whom a considerable portion do their active 
work in the great city ? " 

Were it not for our history we might readily agree 
with this view and say, reasonably enough, " What more 
do you expect of a country town of four thousand souls ? " 
But it is not for us to cry " Ichabod, Ichabod, the glory 
is departed." We cannot get off thus easily. Ours is a 
case of noblesse oblige. We have been richly endowed by 
the fathers, and much will be required of us. 

The present is not unique as a period of comparative 
inactivity in the history of Concord. Once for a period 
of nearly one hundred years, and once again for some fifty 
years, our town showed no special sign of being unlike 
many other villages. Yet these periods of rest did not 
dull the spirit and courage of our people, as was made 
manifest when the fit opportunity arrived. 

A consideration of our history should make us both 
hopeful and fearful ; hopeful that the future may be worthy 
of the past, fearful that we may not play our parts worthily. 

Concord's first thirty or forty years may be said to 
represent the pioneer period, and that was surely an heroic 
age. Founded in 1635, Concord was the first settlement 
on the Atlantic coast above tide water, the first outpost 



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in the inland wilderness. The land was poor, the settlers 
few, and the dangers and hardships innumerable. Their 
disappointments were many. In England they had been 
led to look upon this as a land flowing with milk and honey, 
but they found their paths beset with thorns and briars. 
Some had even looked for valuable mines, but the Iron 
Works produced only bankruptcy for their owners. 

When one-eighth of the people, under the leadership 
of Mr. Jones, removed to the more fertile land and less 
rigorous climate of Connecticut, it seemed for a time that 
the town was to be wholly deserted, and the land allowed 
to lapse into a wilderness. 

But Peter Bulkeley and Simon Willard were not easily 
discouraged. Willard was one of the few who achieved 
a considerable financial success in the new country, for 
his fur trade seems to have prospered. He was a leader 
of the militia and a prominent member of the General 
Court. Peter Bulkeley, brought up in easy circumstances, 
a Fellow of Oxford, with a good living in England, had not 
given up all this for conscience' sake to fail and falter, 
after, like Moses, leading his people to the Promised Land. 

Largely through the energy and courage of these two 
men Concord was not abandoned, and came safely through 
its early trials. Major Willard took such good precautions 
during King Philip's War that Concord was hardly touched. 
Isaac Shepard was murdered on his farm and the towns- 
folk lived in terror, but no houses were burned ; and Con- 
cord was not directly harmed by the war except through 
the loss of the brave men who fell at Narraganset Fort 
and Sudbury, and at Brookfield under Captain Wheeler. 
Concord as a frontier town furnished men for the defense, 
not only of Concord, but of the rest of the Commonwealth, 
and all those of military age were enrolled. Simon Willard 
had charge of the campaign in this part of the colony. 



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It is noteworthy that in the darkest days of the early 
settlers, when taxes were collected with great difficulty 
and the town was penalized by the General Court for not 
paying them, Concord gave out of her poverty to the cause 
of education, which has always been so generously sup- 
ported here. In 1653 the town subscribed ;£$ per year 
for seven years to Harvard College, and in 1672 £,4S 
toward the building of Harvard Hall. These were large 
sums for those days. 

A son of Peter Bulkeley was a member of the first 
class graduated at Harvard in 1642. Local pride may 
partly account for Concord's generous contributions. 

At this time there grew up to the north of Concord a 
curious semi-independent principality, like a manor of feudal 
times. Blood's Farms was a tract of fourteen hundred acres, 
which, together with the dowry that Elizabeth, daughter of 
Major Willard, brought to Robert Blood, covered a large 
part of what is now the town of Carlisle. The Bloods 
settled there in 1642, and the brothers, Robert and John, 
beyond the limits of any town, were independent of the 
local authorities, and hardly owned allegiance to the General 
Court which had granted these lands by a special act. 
The Bloods at first paid their rates in Billerica, but during 
Philip's War took shelter in Concord as a safer place, and 
paid rates here. Then Billerica promptly sued for the 
amount, and recovered it from Concord. 

Next a special act was passed to settle the difficulty, 
but so great was the respect of the General Court for 
the position of the Bloods as lords of their manor that the 
Farms were not annexed to either Concord or Billerica, 
and Concord as the nearest town was empowered merely 
to levy taxes, or rates, on the Farms. This led to a small 
war ; for Robert Blood and his sons, with their retainers, 
drove off the Concord constables sent to collect the rates, 



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laying violent hands upon them, and "vilifying his Majesty's 
authority." This occurred in 1684, and again the next 

year. 

Finally in 1686 a treaty was executed, the high con- 
tracting parties being, on the one hand, Robert Blood, 
acting with the written consent of his sons, and on the 
other, Peter Bulkeley, Henry Woodis, and John Smedly, 
Senior, for the town of Concord. 

The Bloods agreed to pay their rates in Concord, with, 
however, certain exemptions in their favor, such as that 
their waste lands were not to be reckoned in their minister 
rates. Thus they won a partial victory. So the Farms 
only became an adjunct, and not strictly a part of the 
town, for the treaty did not provide for a merger of terri- 
tory ; and as late as 1744 the bounds between Concord 
and the Farms were regularly perambulated by the author- 
ities, as were those between Concord and adjoining towns. 

The stout old chiefs of the Blood clan asserting their 
independence against, not only Concord and Billerica, but 
even against the General Court and the authority of the 
king, make a stirring picture. They were truly "village 
Hampdens," and give us a fine example of the early growth 
of that spirit of independence shown a few years later by 
their neighbors who deposed Andros. 

Just as the early troubles and dangers were safely 
over, and the existence, at least, of the town was assured, 
came a great political crisis. The charter of the colony 
was revoked, by legal means, it is true, but in defiance of 
justice and through the agency of a corrupt judiciary. 
Andros was made royal governor of the province, and 
aroused universal indignation by declaring all titles to land 
void until a rent should be paid to the crown. Only one 
Concord land owner submitted to this humiliating impo- 
sition, and that was a woman, the widow of Peter Bulkeley. 



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With the overthrow of James II came the desired 
opportunity. The towns passed strong resolutions, and 
sent their representatives and troops to Boston. Concord 
took a leading part, furnishing her quota of men, who set 
out for Boston on the 19th of April, a day which should 
have an added significance from this fact, which is too 
seldom remembered. Also the clerk of the convention 
which met at Boston was Ebenezer Prout, of Concord, 
who signed the order for the removal of Andros to the 
castle. Moreover, the resolution of this town was the 
only one of all those adopted by the towns at that time 
which distinctly expressed a readiness for war, should war 
be necessary. 

This was in 1689, For nearly a hundred years after 
Concord was comparatively quiet and inconspicuous, even 
as today. With the growth of Massachusetts the frontier 
had been moved further west and north ; and though Con- 
cord, like other towns, furnished her share of men and 
money for the French and Indian wars, the town, as a 
town, took no prominent part. 

But when the oppressions of George III and his 
ministers increased beyond what could be borne, the peo- 
ple of our town showed the same readiness for war, if 
war were necessary, that they had in the time of Andros. 
The Provincial Congress was held here in the old meeting 
house, and under its direction warlike preparations were 
made. Arms, stores, powder, and cannon were procured 
and secreted in various parts of the town, and it was to 
destroy these that General Gage sent the memorable ex- 
pedition of April 19, 1775. The arms and stores had been 
so well hidden that only a portion was discovered. The 
sharp fight at the bridge was a warning the British com- 
mander could not ignore, and the disastrous retreat began. 

The importance of that fight at the bridge can hardly 



Anniversary Exercises 15 

be overestimated. It precipitated a conflict which, even if 
it could not have been avoided, might have been postponed 
until sufficient troops had been sent from England to make 
the uprising hopeless. And it seems doubtful whether the 
British would have been attacked on their retreat but for 
that first taste of blood at the bridge. It is the first 
step that counts, and our people were so overcome by the 
gravity of what they had done that they drew off after 
the fight, allowing the detachment which had gone on to 
Barrett's Mills, and could easily have been captured or 
overwhelmed, to pass back over the bridge unmolested. 
But after reflection they realized that the step they had 
taken was irrevocable, and following the British retreat 
attacked again and again. 

We seem to hear in Buttrick's order — ''Fire, fellow- 
soldiers, for God's sake, fire!" — not merely a command, 
but a cry, almost in agony, of a brave man suddenly real- 
izing the awful nature of this crisis in which he was un- 
expectedly the leader; and the democratic spirit of the 
old minutemen and militia re-echoes in the word "fellow- 
soldiers." 

During the Revolution Concord was subject to a 
curious infliction or invasion. The militia in Cambridge 
in 1775 occupied the college buildings as barracks, and 
Harvard College accordingly removed to Concord until 
June, 1776. The lectures were held in the meeting house 
and the court house, and the students and professors 
boarded about the town. The college passed a vote of 
thanks to the town for its hospitality, but the town was 
obliged, in the fall of 1776, to put new glass in the meet- 
ing house and other public buildings. If, as is likely, the 
students of that day were not much more godly than their 
successors, there may well have been some connection 
between their presence in Concord and the necessity for 
new glass. 



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But Concord was well repaid for her hospitality and 
broken glass. In the class graduated here in 1776 was 
Dr. Ezra Ripley, so long our pastor and so much beloved 
by our people. 

After the Revolution Concord again relapsed into 
quiet and comparative obscurity for over two generations. 
But no strength was lost in that period of repose. The 
part that Concord took in the literary awakening which 
made America feel herself a nation in literature and the 
things of the spirit, as well as in material matters, and 
the part of Concord in the Civil War which made our 
country truly one, are known to all. 

The dominant note throughout our history is that of 
public spirit, the readiness to sacrifice property and life 
for the common weal or a principle. Peter Bulkeley left 
ease and wealth to come to the wilderness for a principle, 
and others did the same. A little later John Hoar, who 
had been heavily fined and debarred from the practice of 
the law because he freely expressed his criticism of the 
minister's preaching, was the only man willing to harbor 
the friendly Indians on his farm during King Philip's War, 
when all Indians were hated and feared. 

The Rev. William Emerson, a descendant of Peter 
Bulkeley and grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson, not 
only spoke to the militia under the flag pole on the 19th 
of April, 1775, exhorting them to fight, but later made 
his words good in his deeds, went as military chaplain on 
the expedition to Canada, and died in that service. 

Not long ago was shown a homely and touching 
example of Concord public spirit. Our lamented fellow 
townsman, Samuel Hoar, in a report to his class secretary, 
among the many positions of honor so worthily held by 
him included conspicuously and, we may be sure, with 
love and pride, " Tree Warden of the Town of Concord." 



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People of less highly favored towns and cities wonder 
that the children of Concord, rich and poor, all go to the 
public schools, and that our most distinguished citizens 
are proud to fill the small offices of this small town. If 
they knew our history they would understand. 

The proper purpose of our monuments and inscrip- 
tions and of such occasions as this — 

" That memory may their deed redeem, 
When, like our sires, our sons are gone" — 

is not empty glorification or vain boasting of the past, but 
to keep alive the spirit of that past for use in the present 
and the future. This spirit, like the sacred fire of the 
Greeks, has been handed down to us, and we must cherish 
it and pass it on undimmed, or be recreant to our trust. 
There may be no great opportunity, like those in the past, 
during the lives of any of us. It may not be our fate to 
command the applause of listening senates, and read our 
history in a nation's eyes. But how little that matters. 

"The readiness is all." 



At the close of the address the following was offered 
by Edward Waldo Emerson, and unanimously adopted by 
a rising vote and sent to the Senator : 

Concord, Mass., September 12, 1904. 
Hon. George F. Hoar: — 

The citizens of Concord, assembled to celebrate the town's birthday, 
unanimously send affectionate and proud greetings to their townsman, 
Senator Hoar. John S. Keyes, President. 

The following was received by President Keyes after 
the Senator's death : 

Senator Hoar's family gratefully acknowledges the Town of Concord's 
kind expression of sympathy. 

Worcester, Massachusetts, 
October, 1904. 



Following the meeting in the Town Hall, the annual 
reception and afternoon tea was held at the house of the 
Society on Lexington Road, The guests were received by 
Judge Keyes, and Miss Mary D. Brooks and Miss Sarah 
Bartlett presided at the tea tables. 

The annual election of officers was postponed until 
the October meeting. 



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ANNUAL MEETING, 
October 6, 1904 



REPORT OF THE 
NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING 

The nineteenth annual meeting of the Society, post- 
poned from September 12, was held on Monday evening, 
October 6. President Hon. John S. Keyes presided, and 
twenty-four members were present. 

After the records of the June meeting had been read 
and approved, the records of the last annual meeting, of 
September 12, 1903, were also read. 

The reports of the Treasurer and Secretary were read 
and accepted. 

Voted: That the usual annual assessment of two dollars, to 
defray the expenses of the Society for the ensuing year, be levied, 
the same to be payable immediately. 

Voted: That the thanks of this Society be tendered to Mr. 
Philip K. Walcott for his excellent address at their anniversary 
meeting on the 12th of September, and that the Secretary be 
directed, in communicating this vote to Mr. Walcott, to request 
a copy of his manuscript for publication. 

Voted: That Rev. Loren B. Macdonald, Mr. Allen French, 
and Mr. George Tolman be a committee to draw up suitable 
expressions of the grief of this Society for the death of its two 
active members, Mr. Alfred Munroe and Mrs. Sarah E. Griffin, 
and of its honorary member, Hon. George F. Hoar, all of whom 
have deceased since its last meeting in June. 

Voted: To proceed with the election of officers for the 
ensuing year. 



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The following persons were then chosen by written 
ballot, each one receiving a majority of ballots cast, and 
were declared elected, viz. : 

Frestdetit, Hon. JOHN S. KEYES. 

First Vice-President, Rev. LOREN B. MAC DONALD. 
Second Vice-President, Mr. ADAMS TOLMAN. 
Treasurer, Mr. THOMAS TODD. 

Secretary, Mr. GEORGE TOLMAN. 

Executive Committee, The President, Treasurer, and Secretary, 
ex officiis, and 

Rev. Loren B. Macdonald, 

Mr. Adams Tolman, 

Mr. Edward W. Emerson, 

Mr. Allen French. 

The names of Mr. Herbert J. Miles and Miss Eliza- 
beth A. Snow were proposed for membership, to be voted 
upon at the next meeting. 

The meeting was then dissolved. 

j jjj- George Tolman, Secretary. 



SECRETARY'S REPORT 

To the Members of the Concord Antiquarian Society: 

The year that has just closed has been marked by 
more than the usual inactivity on the part of the Society. 
Owing partly to the extreme inclemency of the weather, 
the meetings during the winter were very thinly attended 
at the best, and in four cases failed altogether. A part of 
the apathy of members may perhaps be laid to the fact 
that your Secretary has found it a very difficult matter to 
offer them any entertainment in a literary way that would 
make it worth their while to attend the meetings. He 
has read two papers and your President has read one, and 
beyond those no literary attraction has been provided, 
excepting, of course, the exceedingly fine address of Hon. 
Theodore C. Hurd, at the public meeting at the beginning 
of the Society's year. Perhaps it may be wise in the 
future to stimulate interest in the meetings by importing 
speakers from outside. This would involve some little 
expense, of course; but it would seem that in default of 
home talent we may be obliged to look further off for 
lecturers, if we wish to continue any literary character to 

our meetings. 

The membership list remains practically unchanged as 
far as numbers go, but I find that not infrequently persons 
who are invited to become members neglect to sign the 
book, and that others withdraw without notifying either 
the Secretary or the Treasurer — all of which tends to 
great uncertainty on the part of both those officers as to 
the personnel of the Society. The death of our late vice- 

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president, Samuel Hoar, leaves the Society with only one 
surviving life member. He was one of the founders and 
charter members of the Society, as was the late Alfred 
Munroe, whose recent death we also deplore — the kindly, 
gentle, retiring man, who contributed to the files of the 
Society one of the most important and interesting papers 
that have been read at its meetings, Mrs. Sarah E. Griffin, 
who has deceased still more recently, had been a member 
for ten years, and had been a constant attendant at our 
meetings up to the time of her last illness. All these three 
were natives of Concord ; the ancestors of all of them had 
occupied prominent places in its history and in its domestic 
life, and had helped in their day and generation to give to 
the old town the distinctive individual character that it has 
always maintained and has always been proud of among 
all the towns in the world. The deaths of these three 
individuals should at least remind us how few of those 
older members yet remain, whose interest and enthusiasm 
for the history of Concord, and whose hope 

" To keep her earlier laurels fresh and green " 

inspired the formation of this Society. Much, very much, 

is yet to be done in the way of that local historical inquiry 

and research so well begun by Mr. Lemuel Shattuck seventy 

years ago, and so brilliantly continued in later years by our 

own lamented members. Rev. Grindall Reynolds and Hon. 

Charles H. Walcott. It is one of the objects — it should 

be the principal object — of this Society to further such 

historical research and inquiry, to gather and to preserve, 

not only the old furniture and the material relics of our 

fathers, but as well the stories of their lives, the memories 

of their manners, the records of their deeds. 

Respectfully submitted, 

George Tolman, Secretary. 
Concord, September 12, 1904. 



TREASURER'S REPORT 



Cash on hand September 12, 1903 
Received from George Tohnan, sales of pam- 
phlet and advertising .... 
Received from annual dues .... 

Expenditures 

By paid Albert Lane, printing 

" H. L. Whitcomb, use of crockery 
" Thomas Todd, printing . 
" Wilfrid Wheeler, flowers . 
" Supplies for reception 
" Concord's Home for the Aged, one 
year's interest on Mortgage Loan 
of $1,250 to July IS, 1903 
" J. B. Wood & Son Co., wood 
" G. W. Waite, framing pictures 
" Watering streets 
" Insurance on building 
" J. B. Wood & Son Co., lumber 
" Cash on hand and in bank 



$247.99 

90-95 
226.00 



$65.00 

2.00 

24.85 

2.00 

8.05 



62.50 

3-7S 
12.50 

10.00 

9.00 

10.40 

354-89 



$564-94 



$564-94 



Respectfully submitted, 

Thomas Todd, Treasurer. 



Assets 



Cash on hand and in bank 
Cash in Savings Bank 

Collection insured for 
House and lot . 



$244-34 
IIO-55 

$354-89 
5,000.00 
3,000.00 

58,354.89 



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Concord Antiquarian Society 





Brought 


over 






$8,354.89 


Less Mortgage Loan Concord's Home for t 


he Aged 


1,250.00 


Net Assets September 12, 1904 . 


$7,104.89 






1903 . 






6,997.99 






' 1902 . 






6,958.11 






' 1901 . 






7,116.02 






' 1900 . 






7,044.71 






1899 . 






7,049.76 






' 1898 . 






6,985.36 






1897 . 






6,969.25 






' 1896 . 






4,376.45 






1895 . . 






4,411.08 


Receipts for the year 


$316.95 




Expenses 


210.05 




Balance 


1^106.90 


> 




Liabilities (Interest) 




62.5c 


) 



$44.40 



LIFE MEMBERS 



C M *Brooks, George Merrick 
C M *Damon, Edward Carver 
C M Emerson, Edward Waldo 



C M *Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood 

C M *Hoar, Samuel 

1893 *Prichard, William Mackey 



ANNUAL MEMBERS 



887 tAdams, Frank Augustus 
89s Adams, Charles Francis 
897 *Andrews, Annie P. 

888 Baker, George Minot 

889 Baker, James Edward 

896 Ball, Angelina 
887 *Ball, Elizabeth A. 
893 Ballou, Murray 

893 Ballou, Mabel (Mrs.) 
887 Barker, Daniel F. 

C M *Barrett, Edwin Shepard 
887 Barrett, Laura E. (Mrs.) 
887 *Barrett, Emeline Elizabeth 
: M Barrett, Richard Fay 
893 Barrett, Cora Belle (Mrs.) 
893 Barrett, Jeanie Shepard 
887 *Barrett, William 

C M *Bartlett, George Bradford 
887 *Bartlett, Elizabeth Bradford 
887 JBartlett, Edward Jarvis 
887 *Bates, Lavinia Bacon 
903 |Beal, Frances J. 

903 |Beal, Mary A. 
887 *Bemis, George F. 

904 Benson, Harriet E. (Mrs.) 

887 *Bigelow, Ann Hagar (Mrs.) 

888 tBlanchard, Helen A. (Mrs.) 

897 Bowker, William H. 
891 t Brooks, Lovisa E. (Mrs.) 
887 tBrooks, Stephen George 

7 Brooks, Mary A. (Mrs.) 



900 Brown, Abram English 

900 Brown, Sarah J. (Mrs.) 
893 Brown, Benjamin Warren 
893 Brown, L. Cora (Mrs.) 
887 Brown, Charles Edward 

893 Brown, Florence W. (Mrs.) 
881 *Brown, John 

894 Brown, Amanda M. (Mrs.) 
887 Brown, John, 2d 

887 Brown, William Heni-y 

889 Browne, Caroline V. (Mrs.) 

(Admitted as Caroline V. Wheildon) 
887 Bulkley, Benjamin Reynolds 

(To Honorary List) 
887 tBulkley, Mary W. (Mrs.) 
899 JBurrill, Anna H. (Mrs.) 

887 *Buttrick, Humphrey Hunt 

888 *Buttrick, Lucy Ann (Mrs.) 

893 Carr, Joseph Fletcher 
902 Carr, Walter Albert 
899 Chamberlin, Theodore 
887 *Chapman, John H. 
887 Cheney, Caroline F. 

894 fChester, Arthur Herbert 

894 t Chester, Elizabeth Slade (Mrs.) 
893 Clark, Cyrus 

901 Cobum, Julia L. 
887 Coolidge, Henry D. 
887 tCrampton, George W. 

887 Dakin, Alfred Butler Curling 
887 t Damon, Anne E. (Mrs.) 



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1887 I Damon, Ralph Hager 

1888 t Damon, Mary W. (Mrs.) 
C M * Davis, Cummings Elethan 
1888 tDavis, Wilbur Grove 
1888 tDavis, Anna E. (Mrs.) 
1893 J Decker, William N. 

1887 tDerby, Joseph 

1887 t Derby, Nathan 

1888 J Derby, Martha K. (Mrs.) 
1904 Derby, Urbane 

1897 Derby, Sarah E. 

(Admitted as Sarah E. Staples) 

1899 tDodge, Charles Benjamin 
1899 Dodge, Willietta (Mrs.) 

1887 *Eaton, Lorenzo 
1904 Eaton, Harriet L. 
1893 Eaton, Mary StovF 
190 1 Eckfeldt, Thomas H. 
1903 Edgarton, Charles Frederick 
1903 Edgarton, S. Helen (Mrs.) 
1887 Emerson, Ellen Tucker 
1887 t Emery, Samuel Hopkins 

1887 Farrar, Willard Thomas 
1887 Friend, John Caleb 

1898 French, Allen 

1898 French, Ellen B. (Mrs.) 

C M t Fuller, Arthur Greenwood 

1893 Gage, Olive 

1887 JGarty, James 
1893 JGilmore, John L. 

1888 Gourgas, Abby M. 

1893 *Griffin, Sarah E. (Mrs.) 
1888 1 Grout, Frances J. (Mrs.) 

1894 Harlow, Martha H. (Mrs.) 
1893 JHartwell, Samuel 

1893 JHartwell, Julia W. (Mrs.) 

1903 Heard, Grace A. 

1888 Hoar, Caroline 

1893 Hoar, Helen P. (Mrs.) 

1896 *Hoar, Sherman 

1899 Hoar, Mary B. (Mrs.) 
1896 Holland, Anna M. (Mrs.) 



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*Hosmer, Henry Joseph 
*Hosmer, Laura A. (Mrs.) 

Hosmer, Henry J. 
*Hosmer, John Frederick 

Hosmer, Jane 

Hosmer, Julia (Mrs.) 
*Houghton, Marcellus 
{Houston, Francis A. 

Houston, Jennie R. (Mrs.) 
t Hubbard, Susanna H. 

Hudson, Woodward 

Hudson, Bessie K. (Mrs.) 

Hunt, William Henry 
*Hurd, Charles Henry 
*Hurd, William Frederick 
tHutchins, Carroll 
tHutchins, Florence E. (Mrs.) 
tHutchins, Charles L. 

Hutchins, Mary G. (Mrs.) 
tHutchins, Mary G. 



1888 *Jackson, Susan (Mrs.) 

1893 t James, Mary L. (Mrs.) 
1890 Jenks, Charles W. 

1896 tjohnquest, Florence 

C M Keyes, John Shepard 

1899 Keyes, Mary H. (Mrs.) 

1894 Keyes, John Maynard 
1894 Keyes, Prescott 

1900 Keyes, Alice R. (Mrs.) 
1890 t Keyes, Marion B. 
1893 tKeyser, Calvin 

1897 IKing, George Augustus 
1902 tKing, George G. 

C M Lang, David Goodwin 
1899 {Legate, Helen A. 
1893 tLeland, Francis O. 
1893 tLeland, Annie J. (Mrs.) 

1893 Lombard, George B. 

1898 tLoring, Susan F. 

1894 Lothrop, Harriet M. (Mrs.) 

1896 Macdonald, Loren B. 

1895 tMarston, Hiram A. 



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1902 Mason, Theophilus 
1887 tMcClure, Edward W. 

1901 Melvin, Edith 
1904 Miles, Jonas M. 
1904 Miles, Lizzie J. (Mrs.) 
1897 Moody, Benjamin 
1887 Moore, Frank 

1887 *Moore, John Brooks 
1 89 1 t Moore, John Henry 
C M *Munroe, Alfred 
1887 *Munroe, Eliza 
1887 Munroe, Mary 

1893 jNorcross, Louise 

1896 tOsgood, Harriet A. (Mrs.) 

1902 Parker, Edward L. 
1902 Parker, Sarah L. (Mrs.) 
1901 Pepper, Charles Hovey 

1901 Pepper, Frances C. (Mrs.) 
1887 t Phelps, Edward Franklin 

1887 tPierce, John H. 

1904 Prescott, Charles "Waldo 

1897 Prescott, Ida L. (Mrs.) 

1888 *Prescott, Sarah B. (Mrs.) 

1889 Putnam, Alfred P. 

(Transferred to Honorary List) 

C M *Reynolds, Grindall 
1888 *Richardson, Louise F. (Mrs.) 
1896 Richardson, Florence W. 
1887 Richardson, Horatio S. 
1899 Richardson, Sarah E. A. 

1898 Rodman, Mary 

1902 Rodman, Francis 

1893 Rolfe, Henry Chamberlain 
1893 Rolfe, Abby F. (Mrs.) 
1895 Russell, George G. 

C M t Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin 

1893 fSanford, Charles W. 

1895 tScott, Joseph F. 

1889 tSelmes, Mary 

1903 Shepley, Francis B. 

1903 Shepley, Charlotte A. (Mrs.) 

1897 Smith, Abba Frances (Mrs.) 



1897 Smith, Benjamin Famham 

1895 Smith, Henry Francis, Jr. 

1900 Smith, Margaret B. (Mrs.) 

1887 Smith, Juhus Alfred 

1887 *Staples, Samuel 

1897 Staples, Sarah E. (now Derby) 

1887 *Stearns, Edward 

1887 *Stone, Henry Francis 

1887 *Stow, Nathan Brooks 

1887 *Surette, Louis Athanasius 

1888 tSurette, Thomas Whitney 

1893 Tewksbury, George A. 

1893 t Tewksbury, Virginia Lee (Mrs.) 
1899 tTilton, Mary L. (Mrs.) 

1887 Titcomb, George E. 

1894 Titcomb, Fanny R. (Mrs.) 
1887 Todd, Thomas 

1887 Todd, Rebecca W. (Mrs.) 
1887 Tolman, Adams 
C M Tolman, George 
1893 JTower, Fred Alonzo 

1893 JTower, Anna (Mrs.) 

1887 *Tufts, Gardiner 

1894 Underhill, Susan (Mrs.) 

C M *Walcott, Charles Hosmer 
1893 Walcott, Jessie (Mrs.) 

1888 Walcott, Henry Joel 
1887 *Walcott, Horace 

1893 tWall, Mary M. 
1887 tWeir, Elizabeth J. 
1897 *Wheeler, Caleb Henry 
1897 Wheeler, Sarah E. (Mrs.) 
1887 * Wheeler, Edwin 

1887 Wheeler, Frank 
1887 *Wheeler, Gardner 

1889 Wheeler, George Francis 

1895 Wheeler, Harry William 
1887 Wheeler, Harvey 

1901 Wheeler, Annie A. (Mrs.) 

1894 t Wheeler, Mary Coleman 
1887 Wheeler, William 

18S7 * Wheeler, William Francis 
C M *WheUdon, William W. 



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1889 Wheildon, Caroline V. (now 

Browne) 
1895 Whitcomb, Harriet Lincoln 

(Mrs.) 
1887 Whitcomb, Henry Lyman 
1887 JWhitney, Ellen Frances 



C M Whitney, James Lyman 
1893 Witherlie, Mary W. (Mrs.) 
1887 Wood, Albert E. 
1887 *Wood, James Barrett 
1887 Wood, Ellen S. (Mrs.) 
1887 Wright, George H. 



HONORARY MEMBERS 



Boutwell, Hon. George S. 

Bulkley, Rev. Benjamin R. 
*Dean, John Ward 
*Ellis, Rev. George E. 



Green, Hon. Samuel A. 
*Hoar, Hon. George F. 

Putnam, Rev. Alfred P. 
*Wolcott, Hon. Roger 



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